{"id":3634,"date":"2022-11-21T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:51:19","slug":"topic-2-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/11\/21\/topic-2-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic 2 Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\">For the interview, I talked to two people in my life. One is my friend, Nic, a 31 years old American scholar. Another is my uncle, Wen-Pin, who\u2019s a 62 years old Taiwanese guy, practice Taoist Buddhism his whole life and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>have never been to any western countries if not including Hawaii.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Are you familiar with the origin history of the Swastika symbol?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Nic<\/b>: Of course. It was borrowed from ancient religions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Wen-Pin<\/b>: Yea. The Buddhist one is the opposite from the Nazi\u2019s one, it\u2019s different! But aside from Nazis, I believe the Crusades and maybe something else also used the symbol in war and invasions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Do you know many of the Native American tribes also used the same Swastika symbol for thousand\u00a0years, but voluntary dropped it after the Holocaust happened?<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Nic<\/b>: Interesting. I did not know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Wen-Pin<\/b>: No, but I\u2019m not surprised.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Do you think Buddhist and other religions using similar symbols should also stop using the symbol to avoid confusion?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Nic<\/strong>: I don\u2019t think so.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Wen-Pin:<\/strong> Of course not? Each country should mind their own business. I respect the suffering and the tragic of the Holocaust, but I don\u2019t think the West should have a say on what we\u2019ve been using for centuries.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Do you think we should help reclaim the original meaning of the swastika?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Nic<\/strong>:\u2026..okay\u2026.this is a tricky question. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an appropriate topic at the moment. Things have been really sensitive and anti-semitism is still a very real issue in our society.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Wen-Pin<\/strong>: I think it would be nice if the West learn and educate the public about the history of the symbol. It is important to respect where everyone\u2019s coming from.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But also, this is not really my business, as long as nobody is coming to my home and banning the Buddhist swastika in my own family shrine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the interview, I talked to two people in my life. One is my friend, Nic, a 31 years old American scholar. Another is my uncle, Wen-Pin, who\u2019s a 62 years old Taiwanese guy, practice Taoist Buddhism his whole life and\u00a0 have never been to any western countries if not including Hawaii.\u00a0 \u2014\u2014 Are you&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/11\/21\/topic-2-interviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Topic 2 Interviews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}